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  any “Ultra-ATA” ideas?

  Posted by E. Eric johnson iii on July 19, 2006 at 9:02 pm

  hello pasture of geniuses,

  i have inherited a pair of 400g seagate UltraATA drives (i have a SATA raid) that are opened yet unused…

  any thoughts/ideas on what to do with them?

  e3

  E. Eric johnson iii replied 19 years, 9 months ago 8 Members · 8 Replies
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  13

  July 19, 2006 at 9:07 pm

  That depends on what you want to accomplish
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  Dndobson

  July 19, 2006 at 9:43 pm

  bookends?
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  Tom Matthies

  July 20, 2006 at 1:10 am

  Really, really BIG earrings?
  I just order a drive enclosure from firmtek today. It accepts SATA drives. They would work fine for a two disk mini raid.
  tom
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  David Roth weiss

  July 20, 2006 at 2:14 am

  Water,

  Just put those Ultra two ATAs in a firewire enclosure and use ’em as backup.

  Tom,

  You’ll like the products from Firmtek. I have both a 2-bay and a 4-bay SATA enclosure that are just great.
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  Sean Oneil

  July 20, 2006 at 4:40 am

  Those are still 400GB and that’s a good amount of storage. No reason to let it go to waste. Purchase external enclosures for them – either FW or USB 2.0. You can get them from newegg for like $30 each.

  Sean
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  Rennie Klymyk

  July 20, 2006 at 4:42 am

  The firmtek allows you to use their sata arrays with ultra ata’s with the use of a bridge which is fairly cheap. They aren’t as fast but useable for backing up or storing files etc. They should be fine for straight dv work. Look on their site for more details.

  “everything is broken”
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  Ron James

  July 21, 2006 at 3:39 am

  [Tom Matthies] “I just order a drive enclosure from firmtek today. It accepts SATA drives.”

  Tom, would you mind posting the link to this sata enclosure?
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  E. Eric johnson iii

  July 22, 2006 at 3:46 pm

  tho’ i’m partial to the bookends and earrings… i think i’m gonna go the FW/USB 2.0 route and back-up some stuff!

  thank you all for the ideas… the cow is an irreplaceable asset thanks to all of you.

  e3

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